Does stock market volatility play a role in your hobby budget
 

It's been a bull run of a market for years now. How would a really down market affect your hobby budget?

Buy more? Buy less? Doesn't matter?

The market has never affected my hobby buying.

Nope.

My card buying habits are largely dictated by my income. My income is largely dictated by how my business is going. That's dependent on the economy at large and my work/skill/luck. The stock market is only a part of the economy. The last stock market downturn was the residue of problems in the economy, not the cause of them. I think this is a true correction.

No it doesnt influence my collecting in the least. Hopefully things will get better for all affected.

The recent losses just knocked out gains of the past nine weeks of a nine year bull market. I suspect people will survive.

Yes for me but only because I work in finance. I had a high bid on a card in a current auction and was just outbid literally right now. If we didn’t have this market vol I would have probably upped my bid. But in light of how the market may impact me and my bids in upcoming auctions, I’m bowing out from the card.

The fact that there was 10 coming of this (find) type in the mile high auction and the current bid also had to do with it. Just let it go......

No impact.

No impact on my collecting budget.

Very small collector but I’m technically a stockbroker/advisor and pullbacks have no effect on my budget (as meager as it is).

It’s always important to have a balanced portfolio. 10% cash 10% bonds 20% stocks 30% cards & 30% comics :cool:

It’s also important to dollar cost average, which is why i contribute the same amount to my DraftKings account every week.

If nvidia keeps doing well it could increase my card budget temporarily when I decide to sell. For the most part it doesn't change it much one way or the other.

I've been working in the financial planning business for 25 years. I think, and there's some evidence to back this up, when the market is up, people FEEL "rich" so that affects their buying habits.

During the dot com boom, spending outpaced wages, but people saw their 401k balances - which you really can't get to easily - and spent like mad.

That’s what I call an uncorrelated low beta idiosyncratic portfolio. Haha

I don't think so. Certainly not in any substantial way.

Not really. I separate church and state.

Now, renovating my house and upgrading my kitchen has somewhat hampered my buying temptations.

Of course the market affects my spending budget. Until one or two of the stocks in my portfolio make like Amazon/Google and take off, I'm going to be stuck working for a living, thus limiting my card budget. ;)

VERY nice pre-market pop this morning for you. Gotta love tech stocks.

I think on 4 figure and less cards the stock market doesn't have much of an affect. I am certain it can (and does) on many 5 figure cards and higher. Each person is their own financial situation though and I am sure some high rollers might not have their decision affected.

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Psychologically...I am less likely to buy when the market is in the pooper...like now.

I have not owned a single stock or tradeable security in years. So the market has zero affect on my card-buying. Interest rates, however, that's another story....

I still buy , but try to get a better deal

No, but I'm not spending big $$ anyways

I only buy high end cards during a recession.

In 2007-08 when the financial crisis was in full swing and the stock market was down big, I decided to double my card budget. I had a secure job and just felt there were a lot of great deals to be had. One of the smartest decisions I have ever made.

I dont think we have seen that kind of drop right now (in the stock market and cards) but if stocks continue to decline we may be there again.

That's about when I started collecting again, and almost exclusively vintage. Good thing too, I'd never be able to afford most of the cards in my collection if I was trying to buy them now.

As a collector who hibernated through 2 cycles, there definitely cyclicality in the card market. As the stock market. And the stock market will continue to increase over the cycles. As the card market.

I think mid-year, common Topps, in vg and lesser condition, are not going to cycle up too much in the future. They are fun but their trajectory isn't likely going to be upward. That is my prediction. Otherwise, I agree that things go up and down. Approximately a dozen or more years ago, E cards (in general) were a few times more expensive than they are now. They could go up in the future but my best guess is only the best cards go up. How many people are starting low to mid grade sets of e cards or t cards right now? Probably not tons. But I do think the best looking cards, and most in demand, will go up in the future, at least in the vintage space... but who knows...Collect what ya' like.

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What's the stock market? Are they cool cards?

heck yeah
 

best time to buy is when the shite is hitting the fan or when people are distracted by the things they get distracted by

especially when there is illiquidity in the resale mkt when compared to bids and asks all day long

there's always someone who needs money now

Priceless :D

The only problem with this is when the shite hits the fan my pile of shite is smaller, so I have less to spend. I do agree about some liquidity in the card market as great cards can be sold rather quickly.

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Zero, zip, nada.

The stock market has no effect on my collecting.

I guess I just don't see the correlation. What does one thing have to do with the other? More money in the market doesn't translate to more cash on hand unless you're willing to pay an avalanche of fees to buy a Mickey Mantle card. Less money in the market wouldn't affect your cash on hand either. Most investments are long term so a bad month or a bad year shouldn't cause anyone to panic unless an investor is playing the market like some kind of lotto, which I think is a terrible way to invest.

You definitely have a point. But when the market is down it is psychological more than anything to many people. It is for me anyway. I just hope it's up when Heritage is ending as I will feel better about making a purchase, if I so desire. It doesn't make sense but what can I say?

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No, stock market has no impact on my buying.

I don’t think the stock market has any direct impact but there is correlation with each other to multiple variables, namely employment and monetary liquidity.

Employment is obvious; impacts both demand and supply curves. And monetary liquidity is like blowing air in a balloon, with the balloon being all asset classes including sports cards.

So if the market goes down sure it doesn’t impact the individual, but we are all slaves to the alter of price momentum and price momentum is impacted by the stock market, if not directly then indirectly.

Unless you know each bidders mindset then that is not correct. How can you say it doesn't impact it if I say I am a bidder and it affects my bidding? I would like some help understanding that.

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Im speaking generally. Of course there are people that are directly impacted, definitely including myself. But majority of people either don’t invest in stocks or don’t put two and two together that they are through their 401ks.

That’s why there are so many responses that it doesn’t impact them. I may be wrong but that is my assumption. What I’m also saying in a round about way is that the stock market impacts everyone directly or indirectly through correlation of variables.

Poor English on my part to start my previous post negatively affirming it has no impact, I was speaking as a whole

kewl. I don't think you have poor English at all. I think you were over-explaining a little bit. I agree with your observations.

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Nah, I'm small time. From 1987 Crash to now, my collecting years, it never mattered

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There's an indirect effect on the 'hot' cards of the day and on very expensive cards. It doesn't take many buyers sitting out the auctions to lower the results on marquee stuff. Though I am guessing that some of the pullback on mega-priced postwar stuff is a result of the collapse of the shilling ring that was working over the postwar market through PWCC and other outlets. But we needn't get into that again :eek:

One thing I noticed during the downturn was that collectors who are into lower grade and inexpensive stuff didn't pull back the way others did. Every show I attended had plenty of action at the cheap card tables and dollar boxes while expensive stuff sat. Turns out collectors don't lose the bug even if things look bad, they just channel it into cheaper endeavors.

[QUOTE=Exhibitman;1749422]There's an indirect effect on the 'hot' cards of the day and on very expensive cards. It doesn't take many buyers sitting out the auctions to lower the results on marquee stuff. Though I am guessing that some of the pullback on mega-priced postwar stuff is a result of the collapse of the shilling ring that was working over the postwar market through PWCC and other outlets. But we needn't get into that again :eek:

One thing I noticed during the downturn was that collectors who are into lower grade and inexpensive stuff didn't pull back the way others did. Every show I attended had plenty of action at the cheap card tables and dollar boxes while expensive stuff sat. Turns out collectors don't lose the bug even if things look bad, they just channel it into cheaper endeavors.[/QUOTE

I believe all prices will soften to some degree, but the most valuable, rarest eye candy will generally hold it value above the rest of the “junk” rally. And when the cycle goes up, I feel they will be the best to rebound. If you needed money which would you sell your prized PC Cards or your lower grade extras. And when you are out of extras, which would you sell, iconic cards or Your post war stuff that has 10x or 100x the population size of your favorites?

I wasn't talking about value, I was talking about liquidity. When things went to crap and my practice went down briefly with it (try having an entire month worth of gross revenue suddenly become uncollectible because so many clients were real estate related and went bust overnight) I had to sell cards to make my monthly nut. I found that the lower grade stuff moved consistently while the high grade stuff sat. Fine if you are a collector who doesn't need to sell specific items, not so much if you need to turn over inventory to pay the bills. As a collector, sure, I am gonna try to sell the junk and readily replaced stuff first; I have been doing just that to fund my kid's college and med school needs.